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ALBUM: Brighter In The Dark RELEASE DATE: January 27, 2017BUY THIS ALBUM

1. Lock & Key (Ingrid Elizabeth)

Alarm clock, wake up/ Head scratch, where the hell am I? / Birmingham, Boston / Amsterdam, Austin / Stranger in a strange town / Yet again, but I don't really mind / ‘Cause everyday it’s honey drizzle, hot tea / Orange slice, heavy cream / Your face, smiling back at me / In the morning light, I wake to the sweetest dream / All I know is that happy is another sunrise / Be it rain or shine / Home is your pillow next to mine / You know you'll be sitting shotgun / Anywhere I roam / You and me are the lock and key to a happy home / Bird song, trash truck / Thank God to wake up in my bed / Dirty dishes, dog walks / Pulling weeds, pillow talk / Everyday the same thing / Ain't no place I’d rather be instead / ‘Cause everyday it’s honey drizzle, hot tea / Orange slice, heavy cream / Your face, smiling back at me / In the morning light, I wake to the sweetest dream / All I know is that happy is another sunrise / Be it rain or shine / Home is your slippers next to mine / You know how to tend my fire / To warm your bones / You and me are the lock and key to a happy home / All I know is that / Happy is another sunrise / Be it rain or shine / Home is your suitcase next to mine / You know you'll be sitting shotgun / Anywhere I roam / You and me are the lock and key to a happy home / To a happy home / We make a happy home

2. Brighter In The Dark (Tylan Greenstein)

Oh my friend, was it quiet at the end / Was your voice sore from trying, were your bones bent from crying / Cause I know how the dark makes its way into your heart / And whispers in your ear, that it’s better over here / Oh your heart was an aching open part / Growing outside with the weeds, like a mouth you could not feed / And every waking day was another debt to pay / From an empty penny jar, on the backseat of a car / Now I guess you know / What it’s like to lead yourself back home / What it’s like to face it all alone / Now you’re with the moon and with the stars / So tell me is it brighter in the dark? / Oh this world is an empty handed girl / With a mouth too full of words and a sky too full of birds / And the silent strings on her lonesome violin / Will always feel her hands, though the years had other plans / Now I guess you see / What it’s like to set your body free / What it’s like to have a place to be / Now you’re in the night sky with the stars / So tell me is it brighter in the dark?

3. Beehive (Quoted text from The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. Music & all other lyrics by Ingrid Elizabeth)

“Place a beehive on my grave / And let the honey soak through / When I'm dead and gone / That's what I want from you / The streets of heaven are gold & sunny / But I'll stick with my plot and a pot of honey / Place a beehive on my grave / And let the honey soak through” / Shed no teardrops on my grave / Don't you cry for me / When I'm dead and gone / I'll be in good company / The King of Heaven is a real nice mister / But I'll stick with my Queen and ten thousand sisters / Shed no teardrops on my grave / Don't you cry for me / Dance a hambone on my grave / And pass the jug around / When I'm dead and gone / I said I wanna see you gettin' down / The harps in heaven are mighty sweet / But I'll take a / stomp and clap to a funky beat / Dance a hambone on my grave / And pass the jug around / “Place a beehive on my grave / And let the honey soak through”

4. Blue Collar Blues (Ingrid Elizabeth)

Silver spoon or pitchfork, baby / Tell me what's it gonna be / (Tell me what’s it gonna be, tell me what’s it gonna be?) / Do you want her oyster bar and caviar / Or do you want my mustard greens / (Do you want her, do you want her?) / Silver spoon or pitchfork, baby / Who's gonna give you what you need / Perrier or moonshine, baby / What you want to fill your glass / Do you want to play it safe and pump the brakes / Or slam down on the gas / Perrier or Moonshine, baby / Who's gonna knock you on your ass / Jesus Christ or Elvis, baby / Who you want to save your soul / Do you want her crown of thorns and Sunday scorn / Or do you want my rock 'n roll / Jesus Christ or Elvis, baby / I really gotta know / Silver spoon or pitchfork, baby / Tell me what's it gonna be / Do you want my dirty homegrown loving / Or her lap of luxury / Silver spoon or pitchfork, baby / Tell me what’s it gonna be / Who’s gonna give you what you need / Is it her or is it me?

5. If I Had Known (Tylan Greenstein)

If I had known, I would have not been so hard / If I had known, I would have fixed up the car / If I had known, I would have come to the door / When you came in from the store / Never said that you were wrong / If I had known that you’d be gone / If I had known, our life would have been just like / A magic show where birds appear and then fly / Like the old days, in all the films when they’d kiss / And you’d say ‘Love’s not like this’ / I would have held you for so long / If I had known that you’d be gone / I’m not one to hang on to regret / But I can’t stand that there are moments I forget / And I don’t envy other people’s lives / But now I envy that guy / Who had you there by my side / If I had known, I would have walked right back in / When things got rough / Seemed so important to win / I left you there and went out drinking all night / Kept up my end of the fight / I thought that that made me strong / If I had known that you’d be gone / No regrets / ‘Cause there are things that you can’t plan / But yeah, I guess I could have been a better man / Now I don’t envy other people as a rule / But now I envy that fool / Who had you there in my hands / If I had known, I would’ve taken the time / Put down the phone / Opened that bottle of wine / We bought in France and saved for some perfect day / And then the time slipped away / The perfect day has come and gone / If I had known that you’d be gone / (I could have held you for so long if I had known)

6. Spring (Ingrid Elizabeth)

Make a joyful noise unto the world / Be you gentle boy or big strong girl / Break the silence with your song, it's the only cure / Make a joyful noise unto the sun / The wind chime orchestra has just begun / Daffodil trumpets proclaim Old Man Winter dead and gone / Life is lived, spring is sprung / Make a joyful noise unto the rain / Bullfrog choirs join in the refrain / Thunder is just a belly laugh at our silly human pain / Make a joyful noise unto the field / Every blade of grass a Zorba, kicking up his heels / The lowing of the calf baptized / By mother's patient tongue / Life is lived, spring is sprung / Make a joyful noise unto the moon / Crying of coyote, howling of the loon / Call out to the one you love, hurry up, it's almost June / Make a joyful noise unto your heart / Whisper secrets to the evening star / Do the best to twinkle in the eye of everyone / Know that every ending makes a space for new life to come / As tiny sticky fingers wrap around my giant calloused thumb / Life is lived, spring is sprung

7. Two If By Sea (Tylan Greenstein)

The mountains or the city, I'd go anywhere with you / As long as you tell me what you want me to do / It's one if by land and two if by sea / And for you, I'll be on my knees / My heart is an acre with an open sky above / The stars hang in their vapor, blinking in and out of love / But some things are constant, like the river to the sea / And for you, my love, I'll be on my knees / I don't care who's on the witness stand / My place in the world is right in the palm of your hand / Your wish is my command / So tell me, is it cherry, is it caramel or salt? / What is your craving, tell me what do you want? / To love you and to serve you, well that makes me feel free / So for you, my love, I'll be on my knees / Yes for you, my love, I'll be on my knees

8. Black Tea, Red Wine (Ingrid Elizabeth)

Oh, the sun shines / Through the dusty blinds / I wipe last night's regrets from my eyes / Clouds in my cup / Clouds in my head / A single girl in a double bed / Black tea and red wine / Don't worry, I'm doing fine / I tell the morning from the night / With my black tea and red wine / Oh, the phone rings / The kettle screams / I play nothing by Ray all damn day to drown out everything / Lists on my hand / Mail on the floor / Just the same as the day before / Black tea and red wine / Don't worry, I'm doing fine / Double-fisting to pass the time / With my black tea and red wine / Oh, stained teeth / Flaming cheeks / Another popcorn dinner and Cabernet to keep me company / The moon rolls her eyes / And shakes her head / At a single girl in a double bed / Black tea and red wine / Don't worry, I'm doing fine / Trying to keep you off my mind / With my black tea and red wine

9. Red Balloon (Tylan Greenstein)

I don't think I've ever told you this before / When I was a child I dreamed that I had found an old forgotten door / Guess that I was lonely, guess that I made up a lot of worlds / Guess that I knew pretty early that I was not like the other girls / Standing in the field / I told her how I feel / Guess that it was much too soon / Cause I went home with just a red balloon / Now I look up from my coffee, you are like a beacon in this room / That called to me so loud and strongly, I could not see anything but you / Now I watch you move / In and out of view / Just like in an old French movie / My heart floats just like a red balloon / Seems like you were never broken, like you sailed right through the wonder years / Life gave you a subway token, you took the line until you made it here / And not a day too soon / You flew around the moon / Someone let you go and you came to me, my red balloon

10. Take Me Dancing (feat. Birds of Chicago) (Ingrid Elizabeth)

Well, I am sick of laundry lists and laundry lines / And I am so tired of early to bed and early to rise / Sick of maybe laters, sick of tailgaters / Sick of all the haters with their pamphlets & signs / Sick of rush hour, of never getting flowers / Of staring at screens instead of into your eyes / I'm so sick and tired of being sick and tired / Goddammit, take me dancing / Whirl me across the floor / Out of my head, oh yeah / Until my feet are sore / Oh, buy me a drink / Sway me real slow / Until you see that girl / You fell in love with / A long, long time ago / Take me dancing / I am sick of house slippers and dishwater hands / And I am so tired of those Saturday night sweatpants / The shorter the dress, the higher the heels / The redder my lips, the better I feel / I’m so sick and tired of being no big deal / CHORUS / Slick back your hair / Shine up your shoes / It’s time we shake this bad, bad case of the ball and chain blues / CHORUS

11. Any Other Day (Tylan Greenstein)

There’s a black man in the White House / They say everything’s OK / They say a long time ago, it was real bad, you know / But not today / But when the shots rang out in the middle of the heartland, no one had to try / It was just like any other day a black man woke up and died / So sing a song of six bullets, a pocket full of lies / And cut me off another piece of that American pie / There’s a black man in my neighborhood / He always seems to be good, or at least OK / When I see him on his front porch / He says, “Have a beautiful day” / But when the shots rang out in the city of Oakland, no one had to try / It was just like any other day a black man woke up and died / So sing a song of six bullets, a pocket full of lies / And cut me off another piece of that American pie / When the pie is opened the birds will sing and fly / And when I see them coming I’m gonna laugh, I’m gonna cry / Now Oprah, she’s on TV again / She’s everybody’s friend, yeah, it’s all OK / Back in ‘64 they passed a law / To be sure it would be this way / But when shots rang out on a Cleveland playground, no one had to try / It was just like any other day a black boy woke up and died / So sing a song of six bullets, a pocket full of lies / And cut me off another piece of that American pie / Yeah, cut me off another piece of the American pie

12. Red Carpet (Tylan Greenstein)

I loved you in London, baby, I loved you in Rome / I loved you in New York City, a long way from home / We had our share of spoils, we tore up every town / Everyone said it’s time we settled down / I think that we should fly away / Over the hills into the woods / Over the place that no one said we could / I think that we should stay up late / Like we are young and unafraid / Like the red carpet's just been laid out for us / Out here in California, everything's dry / Fire sears the earth and water stays up in the sky / Feels like the whole world's waiting, feels like the way I've been / Feels like the rain will never come again / I think that we should fly away / Over the hills into the woods / Over the place that no one said we could / I think that we should come undone / Like we have only just begun / Like the red carpet's just been laid out for us / So I’ll go out and watch the stars tonight / I know they only show their previous life / They sent a message back when this was all holy ground / So I could see them shining on me now

BONUS SONG - Good For You (Ingrid Elizabeth)

Oh hi there, Mr. Jerk Face in the Whole Foods parking lot / It must be nice to slide right in to the very last parking spot / Never mind that I circled ten times just to buy overpriced health food / But you know what, Mr. Prius? / Good for you! / Well, in the South they say ‘Bless your heart!’ / In New York, they’d flip you the bird / But in the Midwest, the passive aggressive will get you the last word / Out in the Bay, they say ‘namaste’ / But I’m getting back to my roots / Instead of saying ‘Go fuck yourself!’ I say, ‘Good for you’/ Oh hi there, little Miss Overnight Millionaire Pop Star In The News / It must be nice to sing pointless words with every note auto-tuned / Never mind the decades I spent writing heartfelt songs for less than minimum wage / When I’m just as pretty, I’m twice as smart / And I’m probably three times your age / CHORUS / Tell me, what’s it like? / Oh well, that must be nice / Good for you

Well they don't give you much to hold onto / You look for the sun, it's behind you / You wonder how they're gonna find you, out at sea / Cause we sailed through Gibraltar together / Through lashing of wind and of weather / And we hoped somehow it would just get better / If hope is a thing with feathers, fly to me / Now cesium came and it leaked out / From Daiichi Basin, it's here now / And no one is free of the fear now, in our sleep / So I pray to the God and the Father / But I wonder if they'll really bother / We had many chances to make it better / If hope is a thing with feathers, fly to me / Fly to me, I've been waiting for so long / Fly to me, come and give me your best song / And do what you do to make it better / Now some things are important to get right / And some things you can leave by the curbside / And some people will fade like the daylight, easily / Cause you can't stop a train or a snowplow / And I can't change the person you are now / You can't change the past, the time, or the weather / But if you've loved, then you've already made things better / If hope is a thing with feathers, fly to me / If hope is a thing with feathers, fly to me

2. Gospel Truth (Ingrid Elizabeth)

Everybody got pain aching in their heart / They got pain aching in their heart / Don't hold back, cry out loud / Share it with a neighbor when you feel low down / The truth shall set you free / Set you free, set you free / Glory Hallelujah, you'll be free / Everybody got fear troubling their heart / They got fear troubling their heart / Don't hold back, whisper in my ear / Share it with a neighbor watch it disappear / The truth shall set you free / Set you free, set you free / Glory Hallelujah, you'll be free / Everybody got joy shining in their heart / They got joy shining in their heart / Don't hold back, smile real wide / Share it with a neighbor all the light inside / The truth shall set you free / Set you free, set you free / Glory Hallelujah, you'll be free / Everybody got love warming up their heart / They got love warming up their heart / Don't hold back, reach out a hand / Share it with a neighbor help them understand / The truth shall set you free / Set you free, set you free / Glory Hallelujah, you'll be free / Everybody got change jangling in their heart / They got change jangling in their heart / Don't hold back, throw your two cents in / Share it with a neighbor and you both gonna win / The truth shall set you free / Set you free, set you free / Glory Hallelujah, you'll be free

3. What Is Gold (Tylan Greenstein)

The clock is ticking loud / On the mantle / Right next to the photograph / Of us at the altar / Twenty years ago / You would never know / You'd never guess / I don't let it show / I've been a mess / Twenty years went by / Down the ridge it goes / And disappears in shades of blue and rose / Oh, and if this day is gone forever / Please just say, what is gold will stay / You were never wrong / You killed with kindness / Silent and strong with only / Peripheral blindness / Twenty years with you / Down the ridge it goes / And disappears in shades of blue and rose / Oh, and if this world is gone forever / Please just say, what is gold will stay / So maybe in a day / Or maybe sooner / You won't know my face / As it grows truer / Down the ridge it goes / And disappears in shades of blue and rose / Oh, and if my world must change forever / Please just say, what is gold will stay

4. Faith & Fumes (Ingrid Elizabeth)

I'm just a line through a square / On the wall hanging there / Counting favors, counting pennies, counting prayers / It's all my mama taught me how to do / You gotta get by on faith & fumes / I make a living it's been said / From living in the red / 'Til I'm famous, 'til i'm sober, 'til i'm dead / It’s the price you pay for loving what you do / Sometimes you get by on faith & fumes / Faith & fumes / When you got nothing / You got nothing to lose / They say you can't go through life with the gas light on, girl / But I swear if I hold out a little longer / That big old ship gonna sail my way / And I'll sleep soundly in this bed I've made / When the van is parked, the bills are paid / And ancient history are the days / Of hands at ten and two with both eyes closed / Always praying for a downhill to coast / I know i said I'd call today / But please believe me when I say / That I can taste your tears three thousand miles away / This picture on the nightstand just won't do / Someday I swear I'm gonna make it up to you / 'Til then, we'll get by on faith & fumes / I'm just a line through a square / On the wall hanging there / Counting favors, counting pennies, counting prayers

5. River On Your Right (Tylan Greenstein)

This is how it’s always been / Sun comes up, the day begins / People come and then they go / I’ve been around long enough to know / That if you have a single seed / That’s enough, that’s all you need / And if you’re lost in the night / Keep the river on your right / I've been wrangled, I've been wronged / I’ve been strangled til I’m gone / And some nights, you know I pray / That I won’t live another day / But if you give a dog a bone / That’s enough to make it home / And if you’re lost in the night / Keep the river on your right / I don’t know but I suspect / What you give is what you get / I don’t know but I believe / What you get is what you need / So if you have a single dime / Well we’re only buying time / And if you’re lonely in the night / Keep the river on your right / If you’ve fallen down a well / Ain’t no one can hear you yell / Ain’t no one can hear you call / Well the river hears it all / Baby come and be my friend / Just the way that we began / Baby come sit next to me / Cause you’re the one thing I believe / So if you have a single seed / Give it love, that’s all it need / And if you’re lost in the night / Keep the river on your right / If you have a single seed / Give it love, that’s all it need / And if you’re lonely in the night / Keep the river on your right